Firefighter Union Stands With Crowley (02/25)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (02/25) - United Firefights of LA City President Freddy Escobar comes on the show to talk about why he disagrees with Mayor Karen Bass and her decision to fire Kristin Crowley as the LAFD Chief. More on the aftermath of Kristin Crowley being fired as LAFD Chief. A British woman has an extreme ketchup phobia.
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| 0:00.0 | KFI a.m. 640. You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the IHeart Radio app. |
| 0:06.4 | How are you? Thank you for coming. We're on from one to four every day. Then after four o'clock, John Cobalt show on Demand on the IHard app. |
| 0:13.9 | And you can listen to what you missed. It's the same as the radio show. It's the podcast version. |
| 0:18.4 | We're going to get right into this. |
| 0:24.5 | We had Freddie Escobar on some months back. |
| 0:32.7 | He is the United Firefighters of Los Angeles City chief president of that union. |
| 0:40.1 | And Freddie is going to come on because United Firefighters of L.A. City is strongly opposing. |
| 0:44.8 | Kristen Crowley's firing by Karen Bass. |
| 0:48.2 | And let's get Freddie Escobar on. |
| 0:50.9 | Freddie, thank you for coming on again. |
| 0:52.5 | Hey, John. |
| 0:53.8 | Thank you for having us. And I look forward to this discussion, and we're just |
| 0:56.8 | going to be factual on all the questions that are being asked. |
| 1:00.9 | Okay. |
| 1:01.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:01.8 | All right. |
| 1:02.5 | Well, give me an overview of what you and, I guess, this entire organization, United Firefighters. |
| 1:11.8 | What do you believe about Kristen Crowley? |
| 1:13.8 | Is she being treated unfairly by Karen Bass? |
| 1:19.0 | Well, we're outraged, disappointed on her removal as our fire chief. |
| 1:24.4 | I have 35 years on the LASD, and the first time in my career, we had a fire chief speak up and represent the boots on the ground about what's actually happening at City Hall regarding funding a fire department that is understaffed and under budgeted for 2025 period. |
| 1:46.9 | We support Chief Crowley, and we are very disappointed on her removal. |
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